Margaret Wingfield
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Margaret Wingfield CBE (January 19, 1912 - April 6, 2002) was a British Liberal Party activist.
Wingfield was the niece of the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Charles McCurdy. She was educated at Freiburg University and the London School of Economics. She was a social worker and housewife.
Wingfield served on the Liberal Party Council from 1962 and was president of the party during the time of the revelations about Jeremy Thorpe's private life and his subsequent resignation as leader. She stood several times for parliament and the London County Council, for Wokingham in 1964 and 1966, Walthamstow West in a 1967 by-election, and Chippenham in 1970, but was never elected.
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